The following is offical handsard debate from the Legislative Asembly

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS (Hansard)
select standing committee on children and youth Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Issue No. 17ISSN 1911-1940

"We are also working actively with our partners across Canada in terms of what other jurisdictions and academic institutions are doing, the research that should and could be informing our current practice. We are both solidifying the longstanding relationships that we already have in this area and then also developing frameworks to increase the amount of information, data and learning that we can pull from these institutions.

We are an active member of the federal-provincial-territorial table of directors of child welfare. On that table, of course, there is a very shared interest area of children in care and outcomes. As part of that work I co-chair an internal committee for that group, where we are sharing experiences across jurisdictions and having a look at how we can learn from one another in improving these services.

Work underway specific to recommendations 4 through 9 in From Loss to Learning. Consistent with our Strong, Safe and Supported operational plan, we're reviewing all of our reporting and monitoring activities. Some of the examples underway.

We are now posting executive summaries of all case reviews, and they are being posted twice a year. Case practice audit reports are being posted on a regular basis on the ministry Internet. The most recent reports occurred in September, and we have more reports that are being summarized and getting ready to be posted now. recommendations. We're doing analysis of recommendations for trends that assist us in better understanding some of the systemic barriers and some of the systemic strengths that we can build on to continue to improve services. The integrated case review framework was developed where….

We are really looking at bringing together all of the people involved in a child's life when there are challenges and issues, and we are looking to break down the silos of individual practitioners working with the children."There is a need provincially for us to take a look at our current policy""We are also looking at the standards related to case reviews. In fact, we're doing an overall standards review to determine if we have standards that really support us in the direction of strengths-based development and what we need to do to adjust and move forward to have standards that are both fundamentally supporting and directing the work of practitioners and programs that are really building on the strengths, that are developmental in their approach and that are improving outcomes demonstrably for the children, youth and family served."